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In the face of a flat refusal by Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Health Minister and the governing party to consider easing up the ban on smoking in restaurants, bars and other […]
Three employees of Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency arrested late last week on charges ranging from abuse of influence to influence peddlin ...
Hollywood star John Travolta arrived at Sofia Airport on October 8 to head for Nu Boyana studios and his role in forthcoming film Killing Season, tele ...
Salaries of teachers in Bulgaria will increase by about five per cent from January 1 2012, Education Minister Sergei Ignatov said on October 8. The in ...
Europe’s oldest urban settlement is near Provadia, a town of about 13 000 people about 40km inland from Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna, according to archaeology Professor Vassil Nikolov, […]
There is no chance of the United Kingdom bringing back visa requirements for Bulgarians and Romanians, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov said on October 8 2012, asked to respond to […]
We were in central Sofia one afternoon with friends from England – our seven-year old-daughter in tow – when we decided to extend our meeting into the evening and stay […]
A new draft law criminalising any reference to homosexuality in the media or public domain violates Ukraine’s commitment to freedom of expression and information, the United Nations said, urging the […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will visit Athens next week, her first visit to debt-ridden Greece since the three-year eurozone governmental debt crisis threatened to undermine the world’s economic […]
Is there anything you find good about the policies of Viktor Orbán’s government? The ban on lorries overtaking on the motorways. Is that the only thing? Perhaps also the ban […]
